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Title Performance and Spanish film / edited by Dean Allbritton, Alejandro Melero, Tom Whittaker
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Manchester Film Studies
Contents Introduction: approaching performance in Spanish film -- Dean Allbritton, Alejandro Melero, Tom Whittaker 1 Acting for the camera in Spanish film magazines of the 1920s and 1930s -- Eva Woods Peiró 2 Performance and gesture as crisis in La aldea maldita/The Cursed Village (Florián Rey, 1930) -- Sarah Wright 3 Exaggeration and nation: the politics of performance in the Spanish sophisticated comedy of the 1940s -- Stuart Green 4 The voice of comedy: Gracita Morales -- Kathleen M. Vernon 5 The sounds of José Luis López Vázquez: vocal performance, gesture and technology in Spanish film -- Tom Whittaker 6 The influence of Argentinean acting schools in Spain from the 1980s -- Carmen Ciller 7 Askance, athwart, aside: the queer plays of actors, auteurs and machines -- Brad Epps 8 The future of nostalgia: re-vindicating Spanish actors and acting in and through Cine de barrio -- Duncan Wheeler 9 Performing the nation: mannerism and mourning in Spanish heritage cinema -- Sally Faulkner 10 Performing sex in Spanish erotic films of the 1980s -- Alejandro Melero 11 Becoming Mario: performance and persona adaptation in Mario Casas's career -- Alberto Mira 12 Performing fatness: oversized male bodies in recent Spanish cinema -- Santiago Fouz-Hernández 13 Disabling Bardem's body: the performance of disability and illness -- Dean Allbritton 14 Body doubles: the performance of Basqueness by Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt -- Rob Stone 15 Los amantes pasajeros/I'm So Excited! (2013): 'performing' la crisis -- Maria M. Delgado Index
Summary Collection exploring in detail Spanish screen acting from the silent era to present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Motion picture acting.
Motion pictures, Spanish -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Motion picture acting
Motion pictures, Spanish
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Allbritton, Dean, editor
Flórez Melero, Alejandro, 1958- editor.
Whittaker, Tom, editor
LC no. 2016591994
ISBN 9781526107749
1526107740
9781526107732
1526107732
9781526121172
1526121174